Care Label

Federal law requires it and most buyers never read it: the care label sewn into a garment's neck or side seam, listing fiber content and wash instructions under the FTC's Care Labeling Rule. It typically shows fiber percentages — "100% Cotton" or "60% Cotton / 40% Polyester" — alongside wash, dry, and iron guidance, often reduced to care symbols instead of words.

Anyone buying wholesale blanks to relabel needs to know this tag isn't optional branding, it's a legal disclosure — swapping in a custom woven neck label doesn't erase the requirement to keep fiber-content and care information on the garment somewhere, even if that means relocating it to a side-seam tag instead of the neck. We've had private-label orders where the buyer wanted every factory tag stripped out entirely and had to be talked through where the care content still legally needs to live.

Pros leave the manufacturer's care label in place, or replace it with an equivalent compliant tag, even when they tear out the brand tag for relabeling, because the two carry very different legal weight — a brand name is optional, fiber and care content is not.

A frequent misunderstanding is assuming a tagless, ink-printed version doesn't count as a "real" care label. It does — printed care information satisfies the same FTC requirements as a sewn tag as long as the fiber content and wash instructions stay legible for the useful life of the garment.